Local Perceptions of the SaxaVord Spaceport At the beginning of May 2025 Space Watch UK visited the Shetland island of Unst for a week to investigate opinions about the SaxaVord Spaceport, which is currently under construction in the  northern part of the island.  The aim of our visit was to speak to Unst residents about […]

“Whoever gets new technology into the hands of their Armed Forces the quickest will win”, writes Defence Secretary John Healey in his foreword to the government's new Strategic Defence Review (SDR).  This is presumably meant to be encouraging and reassuring to the public, but to anyone who knows the slightest thing about military technology it […]

New research by Space Watch UK reveals that nuclear weapons designers at the Ministry of Defence's Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) are pushing to engage the civil space sector in designing new warhead systems. The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) – the government-owned enterprise responsible for research, design, manufacture, and maintenance of the UK's weapons of mass […]

Information released to Space Watch UK under the Freedom of Information Act reveals a close partnership between the civilian UK Space Agency (UKSA) and Ministry of Defence (MoD) in delivering the UK's military space programme.  Meetings took place on around 130 occasions during 2024 between executives from the UKSA  delivery board – the senior leaders […]